OJK Calling 9 Bodit Seller Company Bitcoin

• The Financial Services Authority (OJK) will call nine companies that rate illegal investment activities that offer bitcoin as a product. The plan, the call will be made this month as well.

OJK Police Investigation Policy and Support Director Tongam Lumban Tobing said the operations of several companies that already exist today. The indication of this illegal investment is on the lookout for the Investigation Task Force itself, in which OJK is part of the task force.

"The company offers a one per cent profit per day, many people are trapped, that's the mode," he said, Friday (2/3) night.

Some of the companies in question, PT Bitconnect Coin Indonesia (Bitconnect) and PT Purwa Wacana Tertata / Share Profit System Coin / SPS Coin.co. The company is not a market place like Bitcoin Indonesia that brings sellers and buyers bitcoin, but as an institution that has the coin.

"So people are told to buy coins for investment, even five percent," said Tongam.

However, OJK does not have any data. The understand. This brings Indonesian society is still embarrassed to overflow to OJK if deceived investment bodong.

"They are embarrassed to report it, then yes it is the loss of how much it still does not want to overflow, if there is a possibility of pressure from the company not to report," explained Tongam.

Hence, he continues to socialize to bitcoin trading communities prohibited by OJK and Bank Indonesia (BI) through financial service institutions or as a means of payment.

However, need OJK help is not necessary. OJK Regulation (POJK) to prohibit bitcoin trading because it is not considered a financial services product. (beer)